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The Bioethics Reader: Editors´ Choice
Chadwick
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Description for The Bioethics Reader: Editors´ Choice
Paperback. A collection celebrating some of the best essays from the Blackwell journals, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics. * Contributors include Helga Kuhse, Michael Selgelid and Baroness Mary Warnock, former Chair of the British Government's Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology's. Editor(s): Chadwick, Professor Ruth; Kuhse, Helga; Landman, Willem A.; Schuklenk, Udo; Singer, Peter. Num Pages: 600 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 844.
A collection celebrating some of the best essays from the Blackwell journals, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.
- Contributors include Helga Kuhse, Michael Selgelid and Baroness Mary Warnock, former Chair of the British Government's Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology's.
- Traces some of the most important concerns of the 1980s, such as the ethics of euthanasia, reproductive technologies, the allocation of scarce medical resources, surrogate motherhood, through to a range of new issues debated today, particularly in the field of genetics.
- Includes contributions that are still as hotly debated today as they were 20 years ago and serves as a salutary ... Read more
- Includes eight sections comprising some of the journals' best publications in methodological issues, the health care professional-patient relationship, public health ethics, research ethics, genetics, as well as beginning- and end-of-life issues.
- Will serve the academic bioethicists as well as students of bioethics as an excellent source book.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405175227
SKU
V9781405175227
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Ref
99-50
About Chadwick
Ruth Chadwick has been co-editor of Bioethics since 2000. She is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen): a Lancaster–Cardiff collaboration. Helga Kuhse is an Honorary Research Associate of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. She was Director of the Centre until June 1999. Kuhse ... Read more
Reviews for The Bioethics Reader: Editors´ Choice
‘A nice synthesis of some developments in the field that will be useful to those who dabble in bioethics, or who are interested in seeing what new areas of research have emerged alongside new technological advances and growing globalization. It is a nice supplement to some of the more traditional collections of contributions to this growing field.’ J. Jeremy ... Read more